An article on the Nieman Foundation's website looks at the success that Montreal's La Presse has had in moving a daily newspaper from paper to an ambitious tablet focused publishing model. As far as I know they represent one of very few successful newspaper transitions from dead tree publishing, and several other papers are planning to adopt their platform.
And, for those keeping score, "heavy users of digital newspaper news skew heavily to Apple products, and, here, La Presse+ is no different. More than 80 percent of the product's "opens" and of the time spent using it, come from the iPad."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mmcmonster on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:35PM
My guess is that one of the major reasons this is successful is that it's not in English.
There's a lot of free English-language news sites for any particular niche you're looking for. Less so in other languages.